If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.